Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 19: The Mike Yarwood Show, 1979

Two years after his triumph on that Christmas night of BBC1 Christmas nights Yarwood had slipped behind To The Manor Born in the schedule and ratings, and as any fule no (except Jon Culshaw, who in the festive edition of TV Years blames "keyboard warriors" for the perception) the rise of Thatcher stymied his calling card of being able to take off all the top political names, although that's what he had Janet Brown for. This thirteen minute excerpt still sees him keeping up with Wilson and Heath before introducing Johnny Mathis, who playing off Mike as Liberace would at least have needed less explanation of the gag in advance unlike the Grayson/Abba meeting of the previous year's show.